Arsenal’s dream of being crowned English soccer champion, 19 years after the last title, may have been undone this Sunday by Brighton, who won 3-0 in London, in a match on day 36 of the Premier League.
Two rounds from the end of the championship, the gunners they are four points behind two-time champions Manchester City, who had just won by the same result at Everton’s stadium a short time before and still have a game to go, precisely with Brighton, sensational sixth place.
After a null score at the break, the visitors opened the scoring in the 51st minute, through the Paraguayan Júlio Enciso, giving a more dramatic expression to the result in the final phase of the match, with goals from the German Deniz Undav, in the 86th minute, and the Ecuadorian Pervis Estupinan, at 90+6.
Arsenal once held a comfortable lead at the top of the Premier League and looked poised to win a title they have eluded since 2004, but have only won two of their last seven games, allowing them to edge past Manchester City, who now seems irreversible.
The Londoners were under pressure by the victory obtained today by Manchester City, which kept the leadership safe from the possible threat of Arsenal, by winning 3-0 at the stadium of the ‘distressed’ Everton, whose resistance was broken near the break, with two goals conceded in as many minutes.
The German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan opened the scoring in the 37th minute, with an acrobatic deflection, and closed the scoring in the 51st, in the no less artistic marking of a direct free kick, ‘doubling’ in the championship for the second consecutive time and contributing decisively to Manchester City’s 11th consecutive victory in the competition.
Norwegian striker Erling Haaland also ‘scored’, in the 39th minute, scoring his 36th goal in the Premier League this season -of which he is by far the top scorer-, which allowed the two-time champion to witness the confrontation between Arsenal and Brighton . .
Portuguese defender Rúben Dias started on his 26th birthday, and his compatriot Bernardo Silva came on for Gundogan in the 78th minute, in a game that came in the middle of an important Champions League semi-final. with Real Madrid (1-1 draw in the first leg, in Spain).
Everton remained in 17th place, the first above the relegation zone, where they could fall if Leicester beat Liverpool on Monday, ranked fifth and still “dreaming” of access to the “Champions”, in the closing game of the day.
In the other match played today, Brentford regained ninth place, from which they had been ousted on Saturday by Fulham, led by the Portuguese Marco Silva, by beating West Ham (15th) 2-0, with goals from the Cameroonian Bryan Mbeumo. , in minute 20, and the Congolese Yoane Wissa, in minute 43.
Source: TSF
